Others have clouds that look like spun sugar, hanging low over boats that cruise by. Each barrel-Moran is hoping to install 10 this month, and then more on demand-is painted with a marine landscape, bands of color arranged into blue skies, expanses of clear water, bobbing sailboats and birds overhead. The barrels arrive to the group as bright white drums, which is where Lots Of Fish comes in. And it helps me-there are flowers I can’t get to with a hose.” “It helps the environment, and they’re beautiful to look at. “I think it’s a great idea,” said Lisa Fitch, who owns the Quinnipiac River Marina on which the group is placing several barrels. It’s one of the ways the city is acclimating to heavy, short bursts of rain due to climate change. In the past two years, the New Haven Bioregional Group has installed close to 150 throughout the city, according to member Aaron Goode. In New Haven, they are supplied for free through the Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA), which gets them as discarded syrup drums from Coca-Cola (sometimes they arrive still smelling of citric and phosphoric acid, Panzarella said). Once installed, rain barrels collect stormwater runoff through their connection to a building’s gutter system. As they moved the barrel beneath the cafe’s gutter, New Havener Frank Panzarella talked them through installing the apparatus, whipping out a hacksaw and power drill to install a drain hose. Wednesday morning, the group's work found them outside Anastasio’s Boat House Cafe on Front Street, installing a rain barrel decorated with painted-on wooden planks, a submarine-like bolted door and school of bright, happy fish. “It’s still a little rough around the edges, but we’re getting it,” Moran said Wednesday, as the group entered its fifth day together. Artist Barbara Pochan, the other half of Art25, has been working with apprentices on the social media component of their program. They are working under public artist, educator and Art25 Co-Founder Joann Moran, who is running the program with guest speakers from Save The Sound and the New Haven Bioregional Group, as well as local artist Juan Negron. Three of the students are compensated through Youth Work, and one is working as a volunteer to log community service hours. for a mural that they hope to paint later this summer. In addition, they are priming the wall at 12 East Grand Ave. Through the end of the month, students from the Sound School will be painting and installing rain barrels in Fair Haven, in an effort to collect and repurpose stormwater. Weil, a rising senior at the Sound School, is one of four students apprentices with Lots Of Fish, an eco-art program run by Art25 New Haven with support from the Quinnipiac River Fund and the city’s Youth Work program. Now, he’s trying to spread information about how to protect and preserve them-with a paintbrush as his primary teaching tool. Lucy Gellman Photos.ĭavid Wiel didn’t grow up thinking about the rivers that ran through his city. Now, he said, he thinks of it as a priority and is excited to get involved with a public art approach. grew up in New Haven, but didn't think about waterway conservation as a kid.
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